BERKELEY — The replacement of the Center Street Garage with a bigger and more efficient structure will be discussed anew at a future Zoning Adjustments Board meeting.

The board voted unanimously this week ﻿to continue the matter to allow the city staff to address several aspects of the project including environmental issues, bathroom designs, issues of open space and pedestrian- and bicycle-friendliness, and amenities.

The project calls for demolishing the existing five-story, 440-space parking garage at 2025 Center St. with an eight-story, 248,000-square-foot garage.

The current structure has 1,600 square feet of commercial floor area and an arts display space. The new structure would have on the ground floor a garage operations office, arts display space, and two commercial tenant spaces to be occupied by a quick service restaurant and a bike parking station.

Tom Lochner covers Berkeley and occasionally West Contra Costa County for the Bay Area News Group. Tom grew up in Western Europe. He was a translator for a patent law firm and an international bank in Manhattan, then a housing manager in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan, before moving to California to become a journalist.